Is Failure To Reproduce Psychology Papers A Sign They Are Invalid?
Following one of the largest-scale scientific reproducibility investigations to date, a group of psychology researchers has reported results from an effort to replicate 100 recently published...
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What Brewing Coffee Can Teach Us About Modeling Anesthesia
By Michael Greshko, Inside Science– Mathematics that can describe coffeepots, forest fires and flu outbreaks may also underpin the brain’s response to anesthesia, a new study suggests.The mathematical...
View ArticleResonating Euler Spirals and Prolate Spheroids
You might call it a two-tone football. If you're a real mathematician you may be able to explain to me what the real name of the thing is. I'm not a real mathematician but I occasionally wrangle with...
View ArticleMathematically Modeling The Mind
Try to remember a phone number, and you're using what's called your sequential memory. This kind of memory, in which your mind processes a sequence of numbers, events, or ideas, underlies how people...
View ArticleHow Understanding Baseball Can Improve Earthquake Predictions
Major League Baseball can help understand why maps used to predict shaking in future earthquakes often do poorly. Earthquake hazard maps use assumptions about where, when, and how big future...
View ArticleDiscovery Of Pi In Quantum Mechanics A 'Cunning Piece Of Magic'
While most people associate the mathematical constant π (pi) with arcs and circles, mathematicians are accustomed to seeing it in a variety of fields. Two University of Rochester scientists have found...
View ArticlePoll Averaging Was No More Accurate In 2012 Than It Is Now
In 2012, the enthusiasm for poll averaging reached a fever pitch. Very few people were critical of it and instead talked about how science had taken over predictive politics. (1)I was critical of the...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Disaster Could Suffocate All Life On Earth, Say Mathematicians
Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to an estimate led by Sergei Petrovskii, Professor in Applied...
View Article'Freak' Ocean Waves Hit Without Warning, Says Math Simulation
Mariners have long spoken of 'walls of water' appearing from nowhere in the open seas, that is why freak waves are called freak waves.Oceanographers have disregarded such stories and instead suggested...
View ArticleHow Many Ways Can You Arrange 128 Tennis Balls? An Apparently Impossible...
Here is a problem with truly huge numbers, thought to be unsolvable. Imagine that you have 128 tennis balls, and can arrange them in any way you like. How many arrangements are possible? According to...
View ArticleOn Mathematical Models
When a system is well understood, a well-constructed mathematical model of that system can make realistic predictions based on the data sets fed into it. However, when a system is not well-understood,...
View ArticleA Workshop On Applied Statistics
A Sino-Italian workshop on Applied Statistics was held today at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova. The organizers were Alessandra Brazzale and Alessandra Salvan from...
View ArticleThe Greenhouse Effect Fallacy
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903.It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that...
View Article7 Is A Lucky Number, But Why?
Football teams have been wearing numbers since Arsenal experimented with putting their players in numbered shirts in 1928 (it didn’t bring them much luck – they lost 3-2 to Sheffield Wednesday). But it...
View ArticleScience Prediction: Who Will Be The Best Team In Baseball In 2016?
After being one of the few who picked the Mets to make it to the postseason in 2015, NJIT Mathematical Sciences Professor and Associate Dean Bruce Bukiet has published his projections of how the...
View ArticleDeveloped World Girls Do Better At Math
The 'maths gender gap' was eliminated in the United States during the Bush administration under the No Child Left Behind program, and it has closed substantially in European countries and parts of Asia...
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Random Walking The Odds Of Ferris Bueller Being Caught On His Day Off
Sometimes we all just want to take a day off, be it from work or school. In the classic 1980s movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the title character spent his...
View ArticleHow To Win Money Betting On Euro 2016
UK bookmakers will undoubtedly benefit from three of the home nations (England, Northern Ireland and Wales) making it to the Euro 2016 finals. But if you want to bet with your head, rather than your...
View ArticleWhat's Your Risk In The Pamplona Bull Run? The Math
During the Pamplona, Spain, "Running of the Bulls" you won't need all of the ambulances that are placed along the route, so how do event organizers know where they should be? Statistics helps know....
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Was Euclid A Black Woman? Sorting Through The False History And Bad...
A false history of science was used to initiate colonial education, in support of colonialism. This false history persists. In a recent article about decolonizing mathematics, for instance, Professor...
View ArticleThe Three Cubes Problem
Two days ago, before returning from Israel, my fiancee Kalliopi and I had a very nice dinner in a kosher restaurant near Rehovot in the company of Eilam Gross, Zohar Komargodski, and Zohar's wife Olga....
View ArticleLisa Long Leg: Vongehr’s Rational Free Speech Trump Cross For The Alt Right...
Lovely Lisa Long Leg and Heil Hitler Screaming Nazi once again visit the Stupid Donald Trump Follower’s office in the mathematics department:Lovely Liberal Lisa: Heil Trump!Stupid Donald Trump...
View ArticleTriple Or Bust: Paradox Resolved
A few days ago I discussed the coin toss game ‘triple or bust‘. The game is between Alice and Bob. Alice start the game by writing a $ 1.00 IOU to Bob. Alice then makes at least six subsequent tosses...
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Trevor Hastie Lectures In Padova
Trevor Hastie, the Stanford University guru on Statistical Learning (he coined the term together with his colleagues Tibshirani and Friedman) is in Padova this week, where he is giving a short course...
View ArticleMany World/Mind Zen And Gambling: Large Bets And Happy Enough Ceiling
Mental Health Warning:Many World/Mind (MW/M) descriptions may aggravate mental conditions; suicidal ideation has been recognized as a pitfall along the path of Zen-like wisdoms by a wide range of...
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Random Walk Between Limits Versus Here And Now In Many World/Mind Zen Gambling
The most crucial to happy gambling generally (apart from being prepared for losing, since you create a losing copy of yourself with certainty) is your Happy-Enough-Ceiling, where if you reach it, you...
View ArticleNew Didactic Challenge: Turn The Roulette Table On The Casino
SOCK-PUPPET: All your talk about betting strategies is irrelevant to the casino. The casino takes the money from those who just lost and gives it to those who won, from black to red or red to black. On...
View ArticleThe Wisdom Of Crowds - Now With Even More Wisdom
In 1907,Francis Galton recorded the entries from a competition where people guessed the weight of an ox. After analyzing hundreds of estimates the statistician found that while individual guesses...
View ArticleRiemann Hypothesis: Has One Of Math's Great Mysteries Finally Been Solved?
Over the past few days, the mathematics world has been abuzz over the news that Sir Michael Atiyah, the famous Fields Medalist and Abel Prize winner, claims to have solved the Riemann hypothesis. read...
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